Glossary of Urban Planning, Population, and Industry
Disease:
frequency or incidence of disease in a population.
Infant mortality:
number of deaths among the population under one year old in a year and place.
Natural movements:
are those reflecting the growth or decline in the number of inhabitants a basis of the births and deaths.
Megalopolis:
literally big city.
Location:
basic entity of the territorial organization of the Spanish State.
Metropolis major cities with large and highly influential in the urban network as business and financial center.
Neo-Malthusianism:
defends limit population growth through the practice of birth control.
Cityscape:
one’s own cities, characterized by macización and greater height of the building and construction.
Periphery:
space surrounding a town anyone. Urban plot: how they are distributed and mixed plots or cadastral units.
Plano irregular: the one that comes without any kind of advance planning of the built space.
Plane Orthogonal
Grid. Plano radioconcéntrico: adopts a circular type.
Plano city:
surface representation of a city on a large scale.
Plano compound:
each part of the town has a different type of plane.
Checkerboard plane:
the plane on which the streets intersect at an angle rectum.
Plano linear elongated shape.
Rural population:
those living in towns of socioeconomic dominant land.
Urban population:
those living in cities or towns of socioeconomic dominant industrial and service sectors.
Labour force:
all persons of legal age work and they want to.
Population Pyramid: A graphic that represents the structure of the population of a territory at any given time.
Padrón municipal: List of inhabitants of a municipality in which data are similar to the census.
Population of law :
sum of present and absent residents in a municipality in which they are registered at the time of the census or municipal census.
Rururban:
peripheral area which extends the city and which are mixed habitats, land use and economic activities characteristic of the world rural and urban areas.
Net Migration:
difference or balance between the number of emigrants and immigrants in a particular place at a given time.
Sangria population:
significant and sustained decrease of the population of a place.
Outskirts:
the peripheral area extending the city and where it comes into contact with the field.
Rural soil:
soil type for the development of agriculture, livestock farming or forestry.
Mortality rate:
number of deaths incurred in a year and a given territory, in relation to the total population per thousand inhabitants.
Birth rate:
number of births in a year and a given territory, in relation to the total population per thousand inhabitants.
Demographic transition: a model that explains the evolution of the population and its growth as a result of a process of modernization in patterns of fertility and mortality.
Aliens rate:
proportion of foreigners on the total population of a place at any given time.
agribusiness, industrial activity is to transform agricultural raw materials processed or processed products.
Autarky:
policy a state that reliance with its own resources, avoiding possible imports from other countries.
Offshoring:
it’s the movement that made some companies, often multinationals, as they move their workplaces from developed countries to countries with lower costs for them .
Holding:
large financial company that invests in the capital of various companies.
Basic industries are those which make possible the operation of other industries and are known as heavy due to the large volume of processed products.
Industries equipment:
are those that use materials from the basic machinery and tools to make industrial equipment.
Industrias light are those which produce is coming directly to the consumer.
Manufacturing:
production system that emerges in the seventeenth century linked to some craft activities, such as textiles.
Petrochemical industry:
in charge of oil refining process.
Steel industry:
in the heavy industry of metallurgy is responsible for converting iron ore into molten metal and steel.
Industrialisation endogenous:
industrial policy that promotes industrial development using natural and human resources specific to a particular area.
Technology Park:
industrial areas for the location of companies in the field of new technologies.
Polígono industrial area closed to the city and provided with adequate infrastructure for location industrial.
Development center: an area determined by the government, which is favored by a series of measures intended to attract investment and promote industrial development thereof.
Protectionism: A set of measures taken by a government to protect domestic industry, basically impose heavy customs duties on imported products.
Industrial Restructuring:
renewed an old industry.
Secondary sector:
includes activities involving the processing of raw materials into finished products, namely, industry and construction.